Dunce of the Year

Susan Kline sckline@attbi.com
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:54:14 -0800


At 12:02 AM 3/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>And then there's the time you think you are the hero by simply taking up all
>that incredibly excessive lost motion only to discover after you've turned
>each capstan about 720 degrees (90 degrees at a time) that the soft pedal
>dowel jumped track and the pin is holding the hammer rest rail way too close
>to the strings. I met someone who heard that someone he knew did this once
>:-)
>Ken Jankura rpt
>Fayetteville PA

<grin, again> I did a variation on this: Took an upright action out to work
on something, put it back in, found the lost motion excessive, regulated it,
and then realized that the action wasn't properly seated on the posts.
I got home late that night ...

Susan Kline 



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